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" Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure whate'er He gives, He gives the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 156
by James Boswell - 1807
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The Plain Englishman [ed. by C. Knight and E.H. Locker]., Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...and the choice. Safe in his pow'r, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r. Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure whate'er...will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man cau fill ; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, (hat panting for a happier seat,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...not a shirt to shift him in three months, without ho borrowed if, and died very poor in 1046." • " Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, " And...devotion to the skies aspires, " Pour forth thy fervours fqr a healthful mind, " Obedient passions, and a will resign'd ; " For love, which scarce collective...
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Select pieces in prose and verse [ed. by J. Bowdler the elder]. 2 vols [in 1].

John Bowdler - 1820 - 418 pages
...and the choice; Safe in his power, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious prayer; Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the bestt. It is always a matter of some anxiety with Christians, to discover what are the evidences of...
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Poems Divine and Moral: Many of Them Now First Published

John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...and the choice. Safe in His pow'r, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r, Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure, whate'er...which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sov' reign o'er transmuted ill ; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind nature's...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...and the choice: Safe in his pow'r, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r; Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure, whate'er...which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's...
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The boys' school; or, Traits of character in early life

Elizabeth Sandham - 1810 - 170 pages
...increase, the more he endeavoured, by every attention in his power, to remove it» CHAPTER XIII. " Yet, when the sense of sacred Presence fires, And...for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned.1' JOHNSON. AT length Mr. Falkner became so ill, it was necessary to call-in medical advice....
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 pages
...and the choice. Safe in his pow'r, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious pray r ; Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure, whate'er...sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires1', Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign 'd ;...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 442 pages
...the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires p, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign 'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted...
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The Novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...which treats of the same melancholy subject, and closes with this sublime strain of morality : — Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign 'd ; For Love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted...
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The minstrel, a collection of moral and religious poems

Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pages
...specious pray'r. Implore his aid, in his decision rest, Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the hest. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires. And strong...skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful n,ind, Ohedient passions, and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill ; For...
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